A wearable and flexible pressure sensor is essential to the realization of personalized medicine through continuously monitoring an individual's state of health and also the development of a highly intelligent robot. A flexible, wearable pressure sensor is fabricated based on novel single-wall carbon nanotube /tissue paper through a low-cost and scalable approach. The flexible, wearable sensor showed superior performance with concurrence of several merits, including high sensitivity for a broad pressure range and an ultralow energy consumption level of 10 W. Benefited from the excellent performance and the ultraconformal contact of the sensor with an uneven surface, vital human physiological signals (such as radial arterial pulse and muscle activity at various positions) can be monitored in real time and in situ. In addition, the pressure sensors could also be integrated onto robots as the artificial skin that could sense the force/pressure and also the distribution of force/pressure on the artificial skin.

Fabrication of nanostructured graphene (Gr) for gas sensing applications has become increasingly attractive. For the first time, 3D graphene flowers (GF) cluster patterns are grown directly on an Ni foam substrate by inexpensive homebuilt microwave plasma‐enhanced chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD) using the gas mixture H2/C2H4O2@Ar as a precursor. The interim morphologies of the synthesized GF are investigated and the growth mechanism of the GF film is proposed. The GF are decomposed to few‐layer Gr sheets by ultrasonication in ethanol. For the first time, MPCVD‐synthesized Gr is exploited to fabricate a gas sensor that exhibits an ultrahigh sensitivity of 133.2 ppm−1 to NO2. Outstanding sensor responses of 1411% and 101% to 10 ppm and 200 ppb NO2, respectively, are achieved. Furthermore, a low theoretical detection limit of 785 ppt NO2 is achieved. An ultrafast (within 2 s) recovery is observed at room temperature, and an imbedded microheater is employed to improve the selectivity of NO2 detection relative to humidity. This work represents a simple, clean, and efficient route to synthesize large‐area cauliflower Gr for gas detection with high performance, including ultrahigh sensitivity, good selectivity, fast recovery, and reversibility.

Catalyst-free, selective growth of ZnO nanowires directly on the commonly used dielectric SiO2 layer is of both scientific significance and application importance, yet it is still a challenge. Here, we report a facile method to grow single-crystal ZnO nanowires on a large scale directly on SiO2/Si substrate through vapor-solid mechanism without using any predeposited metal catalyst or seed layer. We found that a rough SiO2/Si substrate surface created by the reactive ion etching is critical for ZnO growth without using catalyst. ZnO nanowire array exclusively grows in area etched by the reactive ion etching method. The advantages of this method include facile and safe roughness-assisted catalyst-free growth of ZnO nanowires on SiO2/Si substrate and the subsequent transfer-free fabrication of electronic or optoelectronic devices. The ZnO nanowire UV photodetector fabricated by a transfer-free process presented high performance in responsivity, quantum efficiency and response speed, even without any post-treatments. The strategy shown here would greatly reduce the complexity in nanodevice fabrication and give an impetus to the application of ZnO nanowires in nanoelectronics and optoelectronics.

Novel 3D hierarchical holey (Co, Ni)3S2 nanostructures are fabricated and exhibit outstanding comprehensive performance as electrodes for electrochemical energy storage.